The current Middleweight division is the worst division in history

From the yearly Ring Magazine rankings. None of the guys you mentioned are or were ranked by any non alphabet group, which I simply refuse to accept because we will end up with a top 10 MW list consisting of 25 fighters due to the corruption of those groups. Obviously, the Ring isn't the be all and end all, so I also used the TRBR rankings which are just as legitimate (and made by actual professionals who try to rank fighters based on merit rather than profit), and it only had 2 fighters not ranked by the Ring, both of whom I mentioned. A top 10 with a few guys being interchangable is fine, a top 10 with 25 different candidates is not a to 10, it's a top 25.

The Milkhailovich situation makes it even worse regarding Janibek, if anything. We don't even know if he will suddenly just drop out of a fight because he can't make the weight without killing himself. If he moves up, the division will somehow end up even worse than it already is.

 

Only Mikhailovich is ranked, and only by BLH.

 

I have actually mentioned Denny in the original post. Fair enough on the rest, didn't actually know the TRBR had its own rankings history. But my original point still stands on the division being stagnant, I think the fact that the guys you mentioned aren't ranked now after their defeats says it all, really. No one that the top guys have beaten was good enough to settle as a top 10, just brief fringe contenders. And the rest like Eubank jr and co are just....yeah.